JENNIFER GOVERNMENT

In the near future, giant corporations rule the world, and governments are but competing firms, and by no means the most powerful ones. Instead of family names, workers take on the names of their employers. In this mega-industrialized world, the swashbuckling cop of the title, the one with the barcode tattoo under her eye, must bring to justice executives who have ordered random murders in order to boost the price of their top-of-the-line sneakers. This satiric thriller from down under draws a Yankee narrator, Patrick Frederic, a very capable Yank who delivers all the thrills and chills and humor we could wish. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine [Published: JUN/JUL 03]